To celebrate the release of Strangeness and Charm in the UK, I thought I would follow up my previous post with some more on the church at Kilpeck. in Herefordshire. I said in my post, Publication Day: Strangeness and Charm, that while he outside of the church was fascinating, the inside held even more surprises….
Category: Books
Publication Day: Strangeness and Charm
The 29th May is the official US publication day for Strangeness and Charm, the third in the series The Courts of the Feyre, and it’s cause for celebration here at Shevdon Manor. For your delectation, the kind folk at Angry Robot Books have posted a sample for you to whet your appetite upon, which I hope will…
News of Book Three…and Four
The news has broken, and you can read about it here and here, but since you are on my website I can tell you about it myself. I am pleased to announce that Angry Robot Books have agreed to publish two more books in the series, The Courts of the Feyre. The third book in the…
SciFi & Fantasy Book of the Year 2010
Well, the polls have closed and the votes counted and I am delighted to announce the SciFi & Fantasy Book of the Year for 2010 is: ~ The Road to Bedlam Close behind was Pink Noise by Leonid Korogodski and Amortals by Matt Forbeck (also published by Angry Robot Books) I would like to thank everyone…
Bedlam Competition Winner
Firstly, a big thank you to all the people who entered the competition to win signed copies of both Sixty-One Nails and The Road to Bedlam. It helped me celebrate the US launch of the second book in style. I have to say that you made selecting a winner hard for me – there was…
It’s Bedlam Out There
Today is the release day for The Road to Bedlam in the United States and Canada and we’re celebrating here at Shevdon Manor by giving away copies of both books: Sixty-One Nails and The Road to Bedlam as a pair, in the US edition, signed and dated 26th October 2010, to be posted anywhere in…
A Star at PW
It’s not often that I feature a review on my blog. I keep track of reviews and sometimes copy extracts into my reviews page for those who want to browse them, but I don’t tend to post them. When the reviewer is Publisher’s Weekly, though, it gets my immediate attention. Sixty-One Nails Mike Shevdon. HarperCollins/Angry…